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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Las Vegas, NV

July 22, 2003Mohave County, Arizona

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2003, 5:06 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 2003, 5:06 PM MST (00:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2003, 5:45 PM MST
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mohave County, AZ

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 2003-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 387 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 2003-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
387 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2073 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

889 
WUUS55 KVEF 230006
SVRVEF
AZC015-230045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
506 PM MST TUE JUL 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA

* UNTIL 545 PM MST

* AT 506 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF MT. TRUMBULL...OR ABOUT
  33 MILES SOUTH OF HILDALE...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER RURAL NORTHEASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY THROUGH 545 PM MST

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN
PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY
RAIN.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY.

LAT...LON 3647 11272 3665 11276 3661 11330 3636 11325

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 6:34 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEFMohave56 min
Jul 23, 12:51 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFMohave39 min
Jul 23, 1:38 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFMohave37 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.